nyseattitude:van1ty: There is no way there are more than six people on Fark who were excited to watch skiing. Hell, there probably aren't six people on here excited about the Winter Olympics at all.

I am. I always look forward to the Winter Olympics.

I look forward to the Winter Olympics. I do not look forward to NBC.

When the luge is on, SHOW ME THE FARKING LUGE!!!! Don't show me the 2 Americans and the 3 eventual medal winners, interspersed with feel-good stories about 3-legged puppies with cancer and how they taught an athlete to persevere.

How am I supposed to feel thrilled, disappointed, hopeful, etc. about the luge competition if I don't see enough of it to gain any context?

FrancoFile:nyseattitude: van1ty: There is no way there are more than six people on Fark who were excited to watch skiing. Hell, there probably aren't six people on here excited about the Winter Olympics at all.

I am. I always look forward to the Winter Olympics.

I look forward to the Winter Olympics. I do not look forward to NBC.

When the luge is on, SHOW ME THE FARKING LUGE!!!! Don't show me the 2 Americans and the 3 eventual medal winners, interspersed with feel-good stories about 3-legged puppies with cancer and how they taught an athlete to persevere.

How am I supposed to feel thrilled, disappointed, hopeful, etc. about the luge competition if I don't see enough of it to gain any context?

xiola:FrancoFile: nyseattitude: van1ty: There is no way there are more than six people on Fark who were excited to watch skiing. Hell, there probably aren't six people on here excited about the Winter Olympics at all.

I am. I always look forward to the Winter Olympics.

I look forward to the Winter Olympics. I do not look forward to NBC.

When the luge is on, SHOW ME THE FARKING LUGE!!!! Don't show me the 2 Americans and the 3 eventual medal winners, interspersed with feel-good stories about 3-legged puppies with cancer and how they taught an athlete to persevere.

How am I supposed to feel thrilled, disappointed, hopeful, etc. about the luge competition if I don't see enough of it to gain any context?

So true. Enough with the feel-good stories. Show the competition.

How long does NBC have control of the Olympics coverage? Why isn't it rotated around like the Super Bowl? Their coverage of the last summer games were an embarrassment, especially how they covered the opening ceremonies.

NeoCortex42:xiola: FrancoFile: nyseattitude: van1ty: There is no way there are more than six people on Fark who were excited to watch skiing. Hell, there probably aren't six people on here excited about the Winter Olympics at all.

I am. I always look forward to the Winter Olympics.

I look forward to the Winter Olympics. I do not look forward to NBC.

When the luge is on, SHOW ME THE FARKING LUGE!!!! Don't show me the 2 Americans and the 3 eventual medal winners, interspersed with feel-good stories about 3-legged puppies with cancer and how they taught an athlete to persevere.

How am I supposed to feel thrilled, disappointed, hopeful, etc. about the luge competition if I don't see enough of it to gain any context?

So true. Enough with the feel-good stories. Show the competition.

How long does NBC have control of the Olympics coverage? Why isn't it rotated around like the Super Bowl? Their coverage of the last summer games were an embarrassment, especially how they covered the opening ceremonies.

A$ long a$ they pay the IOC the licen$ing fee$, they'll have the right$. They come up for bid every 8 year$ or $o.

NeoCortex42:xiola: FrancoFile: nyseattitude: van1ty: There is no way there are more than six people on Fark who were excited to watch skiing. Hell, there probably aren't six people on here excited about the Winter Olympics at all.

I am. I always look forward to the Winter Olympics.

I look forward to the Winter Olympics. I do not look forward to NBC.

When the luge is on, SHOW ME THE FARKING LUGE!!!! Don't show me the 2 Americans and the 3 eventual medal winners, interspersed with feel-good stories about 3-legged puppies with cancer and how they taught an athlete to persevere.

How am I supposed to feel thrilled, disappointed, hopeful, etc. about the luge competition if I don't see enough of it to gain any context?

So true. Enough with the feel-good stories. Show the competition.

How long does NBC have control of the Olympics coverage? Why isn't it rotated around like the Super Bowl? Their coverage of the last summer games were an embarrassment, especially how they covered the opening ceremonies.

A few years ago-probably the 06 games- I had the chance to watch them on Canadian TV. Amazing, they actually showed SPORTS, the way Jim McKay and ABC used to.

Now you can watch for 2 hours and see exactly 4 minutes of events. Thank god for DVRs.

NBC, if you are listening. Please keep 2/3 of the "producers" you are sending to Russia home, and substitute more cameramen in their place.

mr_a:How long does NBC have control of the Olympics coverage? Why isn't it rotated around like the Super Bowl? Their coverage of the last summer games were an embarrassment, especially how they covered the opening ceremonies.

A few years ago-probably the 06 games- I had the chance to watch them on Canadian TV. Amazing, they actually showed SPORTS, the way Jim McKay and ABC used to.

Now you can watch for 2 hours and see exactly 4 minutes of events. Thank god for DVRs.

NBC, if you are listening. Please keep 2/3 of the "producers" you are sending to Russia home, and substitute more cameramen in their place.

NBC's televised main prime-time network coverage sucks, but I have to give them props for:

* The full unedited streaming events (although requires you have cable and they don't do the marquee prime-time events)

FrancoFile:NeoCortex42: xiola: FrancoFile: nyseattitude: van1ty: There is no way there are more than six people on Fark who were excited to watch skiing. Hell, there probably aren't six people on here excited about the Winter Olympics at all.

I am. I always look forward to the Winter Olympics.

I look forward to the Winter Olympics. I do not look forward to NBC.

When the luge is on, SHOW ME THE FARKING LUGE!!!! Don't show me the 2 Americans and the 3 eventual medal winners, interspersed with feel-good stories about 3-legged puppies with cancer and how they taught an athlete to persevere.

How am I supposed to feel thrilled, disappointed, hopeful, etc. about the luge competition if I don't see enough of it to gain any context?

So true. Enough with the feel-good stories. Show the competition.

How long does NBC have control of the Olympics coverage? Why isn't it rotated around like the Super Bowl? Their coverage of the last summer games were an embarrassment, especially how they covered the opening ceremonies.

A$ long a$ they pay the IOC the licen$ing fee$, they'll have the right$. They come up for bid every 8 year$ or $o.

/I miss Jim McKay

There were just as many "feel good" touchy feely stories in the 1980s with Jim McKay.

Debeo Summa Credo:FrancoFile: NeoCortex42: xiola: FrancoFile: nyseattitude: van1ty: There is no way there are more than six people on Fark who were excited to watch skiing. Hell, there probably aren't six people on here excited about the Winter Olympics at all.

I am. I always look forward to the Winter Olympics.

I look forward to the Winter Olympics. I do not look forward to NBC.

When the luge is on, SHOW ME THE FARKING LUGE!!!! Don't show me the 2 Americans and the 3 eventual medal winners, interspersed with feel-good stories about 3-legged puppies with cancer and how they taught an athlete to persevere.

How am I supposed to feel thrilled, disappointed, hopeful, etc. about the luge competition if I don't see enough of it to gain any context?

So true. Enough with the feel-good stories. Show the competition.

How long does NBC have control of the Olympics coverage? Why isn't it rotated around like the Super Bowl? Their coverage of the last summer games were an embarrassment, especially how they covered the opening ceremonies.

A$ long a$ they pay the IOC the licen$ing fee$, they'll have the right$. They come up for bid every 8 year$ or $o.

/I miss Jim McKay

There were just as many "feel good" touchy feely stories in the 1980s with Jim McKay.

/still looking forward to the Winter Olympics.

Ratio of action to filler has gone way done. And the ABC segments ("Up Close and Personal") weren't the unadulterated schmaltz that NBC puts on. Roone Arledge imposed a hard limit (2:30) on them, too.

FrancoFile:Debeo Summa Credo: FrancoFile: NeoCortex42: xiola: FrancoFile: nyseattitude: van1ty: There is no way there are more than six people on Fark who were excited to watch skiing. Hell, there probably aren't six people on here excited about the Winter Olympics at all.

I am. I always look forward to the Winter Olympics.

I look forward to the Winter Olympics. I do not look forward to NBC.

When the luge is on, SHOW ME THE FARKING LUGE!!!! Don't show me the 2 Americans and the 3 eventual medal winners, interspersed with feel-good stories about 3-legged puppies with cancer and how they taught an athlete to persevere.

How am I supposed to feel thrilled, disappointed, hopeful, etc. about the luge competition if I don't see enough of it to gain any context?

So true. Enough with the feel-good stories. Show the competition.

How long does NBC have control of the Olympics coverage? Why isn't it rotated around like the Super Bowl? Their coverage of the last summer games were an embarrassment, especially how they covered the opening ceremonies.

A$ long a$ they pay the IOC the licen$ing fee$, they'll have the right$. They come up for bid every 8 year$ or $o.

/I miss Jim McKay

There were just as many "feel good" touchy feely stories in the 1980s with Jim McKay.

/still looking forward to the Winter Olympics.

Ratio of action to filler has gone way done. And the ABC segments ("Up Close and Personal") weren't the unadulterated schmaltz that NBC puts on. Roone Arledge imposed a hard limit (2:30) on them, too.

Okay, I guess you know more about it than me. My recollection from like the '84 games were incessant cutaways to up close and personal.

If you, me, and everyone else hates it, why do they do it? It certainly can't be any cheaper to pre-produce hundreds of vignettes in different athletes' hometowns than it would be to just keep showing the events they are already filming. What is the rationale?

Debeo Summa Credo:If you, me, and everyone else hates it, why do they do it? It certainly can't be any cheaper to pre-produce hundreds of vignettes in different athletes' hometowns than it would be to just keep showing the events they are already filming. What is the rationale?

FrancoFile:nyseattitude: van1ty: There is no way there are more than six people on Fark who were excited to watch skiing. Hell, there probably aren't six people on here excited about the Winter Olympics at all.

I am. I always look forward to the Winter Olympics.

I look forward to the Winter Olympics. I do not look forward to NBC.

When the luge is on, SHOW ME THE FARKING LUGE!!!! Don't show me the 2 Americans and the 3 eventual medal winners, interspersed with feel-good stories about 3-legged puppies with cancer and how they taught an athlete to persevere.

How am I supposed to feel thrilled, disappointed, hopeful, etc. about the luge competition if I don't see enough of it to gain any context?

I've already decided to watch the online streams and basically ignore the TV coverage unless it's something worth watching (meaning an American medal). It's better coverage than the TV coverage and I can see everything instead of just what NBC wants us to see.

/Though they announced today that they won't stream the Opening Ceremony//Again

IAmRight:HaywoodJablonski: Nope. Not at all. In fact, if there were a "Countdown To the Closing Ceremonies" page, I'd share it on Facebook with my full endorsement.

I think it's more of "Countdown to the end of pretending to care about any of these 'sports'".

/but I suppose curling loves being relevant every four years//and it's sadly the most watchable of the sports

I don't preen to care about any of them, though. Curling is a fun distraction (like darts) so I'll watch it of it's on. I basically don't want to see a million posts on my Facebook feed about ice skating/ice dancing/etc

FrancoFile:When the luge is on, SHOW ME THE FARKING LUGE!!!! Don't show me the 2 Americans and the 3 eventual medal winners, interspersed with feel-good stories about 3-legged puppies with cancer and how they taught an athlete to persevere.

Sing it, brother! That very scenario is why I don't watch the Olympics any more on American television - I actually want to watch the athletes, all of the athletes, compete in a given sport. Instead, I get brutally edited nationalistic footage interspersed with the broadcaster's lame attempt at justifying their existence through innumerable ads, human interest stories, and jingoistic bullshiat.

Sliding Carp:van1ty: There is no way there are more than six people on Fark who were excited to watch skiing. Hell, there probably aren't six people on here excited about the Winter Olympics at all.

That hasn't really been true about Olympic ski racing since this happened:

Klammer the Hammer

Hell, I'm even going to watch the freestyle stuff this year -- a Perfect North kid is competing in slopestyle (Nick Goepper)

How to win the Downhill

Method A * Stay in the tuck all the way down * Keep your skis smooth and in contact with the snow at all times * Keep your upper body as still and quiet as possible * Choose the optimum course down the hill * Avoid sharp turns and the need to overcorrect

xiola:FrancoFile: nyseattitude: van1ty: There is no way there are more than six people on Fark who were excited to watch skiing. Hell, there probably aren't six people on here excited about the Winter Olympics at all.

I am. I always look forward to the Winter Olympics.

I look forward to the Winter Olympics. I do not look forward to NBC.

When the luge is on, SHOW ME THE FARKING LUGE!!!! Don't show me the 2 Americans and the 3 eventual medal winners, interspersed with feel-good stories about 3-legged puppies with cancer and how they taught an athlete to persevere.

How am I supposed to feel thrilled, disappointed, hopeful, etc. about the luge competition if I don't see enough of it to gain any context?

So true. Enough with the feel-good stories. Show the competition.

This is relevant to my interests. Who has the best coverage? I get CBC Vancouver here so maybe I will give them a try (and just tune out Don Cherry when he gets all jingoistic).

Debeo Summa Credo:FrancoFile: Debeo Summa Credo: FrancoFile: NeoCortex42: xiola: FrancoFile: nyseattitude: van1ty: There is no way there are more than six people on Fark who were excited to watch skiing. Hell, there probably aren't six people on here excited about the Winter Olympics at all.

I am. I always look forward to the Winter Olympics.

I look forward to the Winter Olympics. I do not look forward to NBC.

When the luge is on, SHOW ME THE FARKING LUGE!!!! Don't show me the 2 Americans and the 3 eventual medal winners, interspersed with feel-good stories about 3-legged puppies with cancer and how they taught an athlete to persevere.

How am I supposed to feel thrilled, disappointed, hopeful, etc. about the luge competition if I don't see enough of it to gain any context?

So true. Enough with the feel-good stories. Show the competition.

How long does NBC have control of the Olympics coverage? Why isn't it rotated around like the Super Bowl? Their coverage of the last summer games were an embarrassment, especially how they covered the opening ceremonies.

A$ long a$ they pay the IOC the licen$ing fee$, they'll have the right$. They come up for bid every 8 year$ or $o.

/I miss Jim McKay

There were just as many "feel good" touchy feely stories in the 1980s with Jim McKay.

/still looking forward to the Winter Olympics.

Ratio of action to filler has gone way done. And the ABC segments ("Up Close and Personal") weren't the unadulterated schmaltz that NBC puts on. Roone Arledge imposed a hard limit (2:30) on them, too.

Okay, I guess you know more about it than me. My recollection from like the '84 games were incessant cutaways to up close and personal.

If you, me, and everyone else hates it, why do they do it? It certainly can't be any cheaper to pre-produce hundreds of vignettes in different athletes' hometowns than it would be to just keep showing the events they are already filming. What is the rationale?

Same reason that American Idol and it's ilk focus on the contestants sob stories, momma with diabetes cause she's a fat fark, daddy done got laid off'n the plant, m'parents were both meth addicts but I'm risin' above, ya'll. People clearly love that shiat. And there's, sadly, enough of them that it dictates the bullshiat backstory moments. When you have a country full of lessers, it makes them feel better to see that a handful of winners came from similar circumstances. Toss the losers a crumb or two. It's bullshiat, but that's how it goes.

Plush_Cthulhu:xiola: FrancoFile: nyseattitude: van1ty: There is no way there are more than six people on Fark who were excited to watch skiing. Hell, there probably aren't six people on here excited about the Winter Olympics at all.

I am. I always look forward to the Winter Olympics.

I look forward to the Winter Olympics. I do not look forward to NBC.

When the luge is on, SHOW ME THE FARKING LUGE!!!! Don't show me the 2 Americans and the 3 eventual medal winners, interspersed with feel-good stories about 3-legged puppies with cancer and how they taught an athlete to persevere.

How am I supposed to feel thrilled, disappointed, hopeful, etc. about the luge competition if I don't see enough of it to gain any context?

So true. Enough with the feel-good stories. Show the competition.

This is relevant to my interests. Who has the best coverage? I get CBC Vancouver here so maybe I will give them a try (and just tune out Don Cherry when he gets all jingoistic).

You've already got it -- For any sports coverage argument between U.S. networks and CBC, CBC wins. Every. Time.